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Jan 28, 2025
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2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog
Religious Studies, B.S.
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Philosophy and Religious Studies
Mohammad Meerzaei, program coordinator
615-898-5773
Mohammad.Meerzaei@mtsu.edu
The academic study of religion at MTSU is part of the human sciences and contributes to the wider study of global cultures and international affairs, as well as personal and collective identities. A descriptive, interpretive, comparative, and historical field, its coursework prepares students to become well-informed, independent, and creative thinkers equipped with the methods and theories necessary to study religious phenomena in a systematic way, to synthesize findings, and to analyze critically what one finds. As such, a major in Religious Studies provides students with an invaluable foundation for a wide range of careers in which reading, writing, understanding, and analysis are essential. Coursework in Religious Studies offers preparation for occupations in a variety of fields, including education, research, religious ministry, counseling, human resources, and marketing. In addition to developing critical thinking skills, religious literacy helps prepare students to succeed in an increasingly diverse and multicultural society and workforce, from jobs as wide-ranging as international business leader to elementary school teacher.
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Degree Requirements
| True Blue Core (TBC) |
41 hours |
| Major Requirements |
30 hours* |
| Minor |
15-18 hours |
| Electives |
31-37 hours |
| TOTAL |
120 hours |
*This program requires courses that can also fulfill requirements of the True Blue Core curriculum. If program requirements are also used to fulfill True Blue Core requirements, the number of elective hours may increase.
True Blue Core (41 hours)
True Blue Core (TBC) requirements (shown in curricular listings below) include courses in the Foundational Skills areas of Written Communication (WC), Information Literacy (Info Lit), Non-Written Communication (NWC), and Quantitative Literacy (Quant Lit). Knowledge Domains include Human Society and Social Relationships (HSSR), Scientific Literacy (Sci Lit), Creativity and Cultural Expression (CCE), and History and Civic Learning (HCL), which include Discovery and Explorations categories. Students must choose at least one course from each Discovery category.
The following courses required by the program meet True Blue Core requirements:
Major Requirements (30 hours)
Description: Terms and Concepts (3 hours)
Select one
Analysis: Cultural Areas and Traditions (3 hours)
Select one
Critique: Disciplinary Approaches (3 hours)
Select one
Curriculum: Religious Studies, B.S.
Freshman
- Written Communication 3 credit hours
- Information Literacy 3 credit hours
- Non-Written Communication 3 credit hours
- Scientific Literacy 8 credit hours
- General electives 6 credit hours
- Quantitative Literacy 3 credit hours
- RS 2030 - Religion and Society 3 credit hours
- RS 3020 - Comparative Religion 3 credit hours
Sophomore
- Creativity and Cultural Expression Literature 3 credit hours
- Description: Terms and Concepts elective 3 credit hours
- Analysis: Cultural Areas and Traditions elective 3 credit hours
- Creativity and Cultural Expression 3 credit hours
- Human Society and Social Relationships 3 credit hours
- Human Society and Social Relationships/Elective 3 credit hours
- History and Civic Learning 6 credit hours
- General electives 6 credit hours
Junior
- Critique: Disciplinary Approaches elective 3 credit hours
- RS electives 6 credit hours
- Creativity and Cultural Expression 3 credit hours
- Minor electives 9 credit hours
- General electives 9 credit hours
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